Shangri-La Jr.
Shangri-La Jr.
"The excellent HIFIMAN SHANGRI LA JR really lives up to its great name and produces exemplary neutral and coloration-free music against a pitch-black background.
Lightning-fast transients and a perfect impulse response also result in an amazingly realistic reproduction, especially of voices and instruments. Moreover, the attention to detail and resolution are reference-worthy."
- Fidelio, Musicalhead.de
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Some manufacturers allow themselves to design a headphone that presents their vision of perfection without regards to budget. Then they add an amplifier that … amplifies and adds to the headphones characteristics, and delivers the right amount of power at exactly the right moment, to enable that headphone to play at peak performance.
Take those findings, apply them to develop a slightly more affordable headphone system that still plays in the upper echelon - and you call that Shangri La Jr.
Each for themselves is still priced on the higher end of the spectrum, but perfectly matched to each other - and therefore able to play better than similarly priced combos. Details like the dust cover that is only a couple of nanometers thick, like the membrane of the headphone; hand matched tubes, that take the clinically precise nature of an electrostatic headphone and imbue it with warmth and a 3-dimensionality that will leave you speechless.
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Not only is the SHANGRI-LA jr perfectly designed, but the build quality is also astonishing. The SHANGRI-LA jr delivers the typical electrostat sound signature, with a high level of technicalities. What I love about the SHANGRI-LA jr is that it does it all effortlessly and the 6SN7 tubes provide just enough smoothness and warmth in this combo to make the whole experience musical and engaging. It’s the first time on Headfonia that we’re giving an electrostat system our Recommended Buy award, but in this case it’s fully deserved. The SHANGR-LA jr is now featured on our Best Headphone list, where it is in good company.
With the right setup, the HIFIMAN Shangri-La Jr delivers outstanding electrostatic audio quality. Certainly, it offers a viable choice at the top of the audiophile dining table with its articulate, clear yet smooth-sounding performance. Stick with more powerful desktop-based tube-based energizers and natural sounding DACs, in particular, R2R DACs that can inject that brilliant life-like texture into the final sound signature. Here the Shangri-La simply excels.
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Technical Specifications
Headphone:
- Frequency respione: 7Hz-120kHz
- Bias Voltage: 550V-650V
- Weight: 374g
Amplifier:
- Weight: 11kg
- Measurements: 40 x 26,5 x 10,8 cm
Measurements:
What does this mean?
The black line is something that could be called the „ideal“ curve of what a headphone should sound like. The Harman Research Group has a range of scientific studies around audio and the human perception of it - one of which was, how should a headphone sound like to be favored by a majority of people, no matter the age or other demographic variables? This result is called the Harman target.
From left to right we have the sub bass, bass, mids and then the curve finally tilts upward where the treble begins - this part of the frequency spectrum gets amplified naturally by the shape of the human ear.
As we can see, this headphone virtually hugs this curve, with a slight tendency to brightness in the upper range, which results in more detail and presence. There is an ever so slight dip in the sub bass, which is surprising coming from an open-back headphone that should be way quieter in this area - very well balanced, powerful and detailed.
Harman Research:
The Perception and Measurement of Headphone Sound Quality- What Do Listeners Prefer?
"The excellent HIFIMAN SHANGRI LA JR really lives up to its great name and produces exemplary neutral and coloration-free music against a pitch-black background.
Lightning-fast transients and a perfect impulse response also result in an amazingly realistic reproduction, especially of voices and instruments. Moreover, the attention to detail and resolution are reference-worthy."
- Fidelio, Musicalhead.de